The company said its net income more than doubled in the first six months, to 1.63 billion euros ($1.6 billion), largely because of the proceeds of the sale of its remaining shares in AOL.
The cover displays the Damien Hirst spin artwork "Beautiful, Primal Urges Rug," which he gave Burch permission to use free of charge because all the proceeds of her book's sales go to benefit her foundation.
Public finances were in a healthy state because of North Sea oil, the proceeds of privatisation and a ruthless squeeze of local government spending.
The prizes should be as minimal as possible for a golf charity tournament because the majority of the proceeds of the tournament should obviously go to the charity.
Inmates also sought to entice guards into sexual relationships because the guards generally shared the proceeds of their smuggling operations with their boyfriends.
But I don't interview him in the whopping great house, a vicarage in Berkshire widely known as "the house that Hitler built," because it was bought with the proceeds of Fatherland, his novel set in a post-war Germany where Hitler won.
Net earnings attributable to the company fell 18 percent, to $3.7 billion, largely because the year-ago quarter included the proceeds of the sale of BAC Credomatic GECF, a lending company in Central America.
India's figures are understated, they say, because they exclude foreigners' reinvested profits, the proceeds of foreign stockmarket listings, intra-company loans, trade credits, financial leases and so on.
But what if a low-tax OFC is shoddily regulated or its rules are opaque?By definition there are no reliable figures on money-laundering worldwide, because its perpetrators try to make the proceeds of financial crime indistinguishable from legitimate money.
London is the largest city in Western Europe; it requires an enormous tonnage of supplies each day and Hertfordshire grew wealthy on the proceeds of trade because no less than three of the old Roman roads serving the capital run through it, as do the Grand Union Canal and other watercourses.
